crease
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
crease (plural creases)
- A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- His pants had a nice sharp crease.
- His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.
- (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
- (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
- (ice hockey) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.
Translations [edit]
mark made by folding
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lacrosse: circle around the goal
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ice hockey: goal crease
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See also [edit]
Hockey rink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Hockey rink
Verb [edit]
crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)
- (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
- (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
- The bullet just creased his shoulder.
Translations [edit]
to make a crease in
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to graze
Anagrams [edit]
Romanian [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [kreˈase]
Verb [edit]
crease
- third-person singular pluperfect form of crea.
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
crease (infinitive crear)
- First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
Synonyms [edit]
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- English nouns
- en:Cricket
- en:Lacrosse
- en:Ice hockey
- English verbs
- Romanian verb forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb imperfect forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb -se forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms